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in reply to Re^2: Perl oddities
in thread Perl oddities

What's wrong about the warning? It's there to prevent the common pitfall of expecting things like this to work right: 
print (stat)[9];

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His point was the warning cares about exactly one space. Why it shouldn't it give the same warning for these also? 
print(stat)[9]

print              (stat)[9]

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is obtuse. I'm sure there are a hundred root nodes on this site alone about abuse of white space, so I'll defer to them.

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